Does Ezine articles still make any good?

[Felip3]

In the past many of the articles we posted in our blog we post on Ezine articles. After Penguin still make any sense to post on Ezine? Can the post on Ezine make any bad or Good to our ranking? What kind of tactics are guys using to promote articles/post in your blog?

[TommyTan]

Hi Felip,

Posting on ezine and other article directories are tactics from few years ago and shouldn't be using because Search Engines see that as duplicate content on the web and if the those directories have higher authority than your site, it doesn't benefit you at all in SEO stands.  I'm pretty sure most people recommend not to use it anymore.

However, talking about any good for these sort of directories.  Yes, i believe they are still a bit useful.  For example, if your website is not getting any traffic and you have no luck in building up the traffic via Social or Search, posting on article directories with thousands of visits, it helps your article get more impression.  That is the only good I can think of for using article directories now a days.

[PerfectPitchConcepts]

If there ever was a reason to, from what we can tell there isn't anymore. Far more effective to get authors set up through G+. Those suckers are like mini websites. Then you can move forward with an online byline and secure picture-in-SERPs glory!

[FedeEinhorn]

You published an article in your blog and then in Ezine? the exact same post? Those tactics are long dead (duplicate content). You can now promote your content using several other methods:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Stumbleupon
• G+
• inbound

just to name a few.